How NOT to load the drivers for wifi at the setup-boot?

English Install/Boot/Login
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I have a friend whose laptop won’t allow the openSUSE 11.0 install Disk to load the drivers for the wifi card at all! :frowning: During the initial boot it gets stuck at the loading drivers point. It says something like this:

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Atheros AR242x 802.11abg Wireless PCI Express Adapter
drivers:ath5k
loading ath5k

After this nothing happens. I have never seen SUSE behaving this way. I want to prevent the driver from being loaded when I boot from the disk. Are there any kernel parameters which would prevent ath5k from loading?

Please help. Linux is the ONLY OS my friend hopes to run as he does not have money enough to buy vista and XP drivers are not available.

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If the driver is preventing boot, start in failsafe,then, once booted,you need to black-list the driver

Andy

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Well OK. But What I am telling is: the system is not already installed. The boot from the DVD is not successful at the first point. I mean to say that the installation environment does not come up at all. It gets stuck when it tries to load the drivers for the wireless (driver name = ath5k). This is where is trap is. It just does not allow to install the system at the first point!